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1 Formatting a Research Paper
Lesson 10

2 Plagiarism Illegal use of someone’s work (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

3 Citations Word 2013 has a feature that allows the user to insert correctly formatted citations Citation: Excerpt from the source of information (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014) Can be deleted without deleting the source Source: the place in which you retrieved your information from

4 Works Cited/Bibliography
Works Cited: lists all of the sources used within a document

5 Captions A line of text that describes an object (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

6 Header/Footers Header: Content that appears on the top of the page (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014) Footer: Content that appears on the bottom of the page (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

7 Uses of Footnotes & Endnotes
Footnotes and endnotes are used in printed documents to explain, comment on, or provide references for text in a document Footnotes often used for detailed comments and endnotes for citation of sources

8 What’s the difference? Footnotes are inserted at the bottom (or “foot”) of the page in which the reference occurs Endnotes are inserted at the end of the document on a separate page

9 Footnotes and endnotes
MLA Style Footnote: Single Spaced Hanging Indent MLA Style Endnote: Double Spaced No hanging indent

10 What is TOC? Table of Contents is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear by page number Appears at the beginning of the document Tab Leaders: symbols that appear in a table of contents between a topic and the corresponding page numbers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

11 TOC Easiest way to create TOCs in Word is by using the built-in heading styles For example, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 — to the text that you want to include in the table of contents Word searches for those headings and then automatically inserts the table of contents into your document

12 Manual vs. Automatic Manual Table of Contents:
Allows the user to create and customize a table of contents Automatic Table of Contents: Allows the user to insert a pre-formatted table of contents

13 Hyperlinks Usually underlined in blue
Changes to purple once clicked Links to a file, website, , or place in the document Links to will open Microsoft Outlook Can be applied to text or pictures

14 Hyperlinks Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + K

15 Hyperlink To follow a hyperlink, move your mouse over the link, press the control key and click on the link To remove a hyperlink, right click and go to Remove Hyperlink on the shortcut menu

16 Bookmark Creates a bookmark (similar to favorites in Internet Explorer) Allows you to come back to a particular section of words in the future Insert Ribbon > Links Group > Bookmark Must begin with a letter

17 Source John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2014). Microsoft Official Academic Course Microsoft Word 2013, Exam


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